Official: In a remote Georgia hamlet, a gunman kills three people before turning the weapon on himself.

Pretoria – In rural south Georgia on Thursday, a man shot two of his family and a fast food employee to death before turning the gun on himself, according to the county coroner.

The shooter also killed his mother and grandmother at two neighboring homes, according to Colquitt County Coroner C. Verlyn Brock, and a woman at a McDonald’s in downtown Moultrie. He said that the shooter later shot himself.

The shooter’s and the victims’ identities were not disclosed by Brock. He claimed he had no idea if the McDonald’s employee and the shooter were acquainted.

In a statement, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation merely mentioned that “multiple fatalities” had occurred at various crime scenes nearby. The Moultrie Police Department reportedly requested the GBI’s assistance, as is customary in big crimes in Georgia, according to the GBI, the state’s top law enforcement organization.

GBI Special Agent in Charge Jamy Steinberg stated in an email that “we are working to learn more information and track down some additional witnesses.”

When Sabrina Holweger and a colleague arrived at work before 8 a.m., they discovered police swarming the McDonald’s and a woman’s body shot to death and laying in a doorway of the eatery. Holweger works at an adjacent optometrist’s office.

Holweger remarked, “It was truly simply terrifying not knowing if they had shot themselves.

She claimed that in the city of 15,000, where McDonald’s is located, police shut off a main route and warned her office’s staff that they would face questioning if they crossed the property boundary into the McDonald’s parking lot.

According to Holweger, the restaurant’s morning manager was the woman who died there, and the shooter had worked there before. According to Holweger, it seemed as though the man killed the woman when she unlocked the door for him to enter for a night shift.

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The distance between Tallahassee, Florida, and Moultrie is approximately 60 miles (95 km). An email for comment sent on Thursday was not promptly answered by the Chicago-based McDonald’s Corp.